Following the release of their self-titled album earlier this year on Metalbox Recordings, IRON KNIGHTS will be releasing a new track: ‘Parasite’. Furthermore the band will be giving away FREE copies of the CD to everyone who comes to any of their three co-headline shows with Def Con One next week:

After this run of shows, ‘Parasite’, the ‘B-side’ track and the artwork will be available to download exclusively from the band’s online store for only £0.70p! Any remaining CDs will be added to the same online store for £1, so come to a north, middle or south show and claim your Freebie!

Metal Shock Finland‘s team member and IRON KNIGHTS and ex-BLAZE BAYLEY drummer, Larry Paterson has teamed up with film-maker KrisMcManus for the documentary project “Scars – The Third Reich In Ruins”.

As well as being a musician, Paterson has another career as a military historian, having written 10 books on the Second World War U-Boat service. He first collaborated with Director Kris McManus on music videos for Chokehold, Blaze Bayley, and Rogue Male. McManus has two feature films to his credit.

“Scars – The Third Reich In Ruins” is being financed via the crowd-funding website Kickstarter, and full details of this fascinating project can be found here.

As we previously reported, British metal bands IRON KNIGHTS and DEF CON ONE team up for three shows in the UK this summer to promote their respective new albums ‘Iron Knights’ and ‘II’.

The dates are as follows:

24th July – Trillians, Newcastle
25th July – The Hairy Dog, Derby
26th July – The Garage, London

Def Con One is an established band founded over 10 years ago by guitarist Johnny Hunter and ex-Venom drummer Antton Lant. The band played at Bloodstock in 2011 after the release of their debut EP. A subsequent year of touring and gigging all over the UK saw their fanbase increase significantly, and Def Con One signed to Scarlet Records in 2012, releasing their debut album ‘Warface’ the same year and their second album ‘II’ in February 2014.

In 2013 Def Con One played at Hammerfest V, Wales; Les-Fest II, Scotland; and at the Headbangers Balls tour supporting Xentrix in Manchester and Hatebreed in Newcastle. This year Def Con One continue to promote the new album with shows across the UK and they are confirmed for Rock & Metal Circus Festival and Out of the Ashes Festival, with more shows to follow.

Iron Knights’ new album was released on 5 May 2014 via Metalbox Recordings, and represents a new direction and sound for the band following a significant line-up change last year. In early 2013, the band played Hammerfest V and supported Vicious Rumors in Europe. Since the line-up change, Iron Knights have played Swordbrothers Festival, Germany; supported Uli Jon Roth/Diamond Head on their co-headline show in London and are touring the UK throughout the year to promote the new album.

Iron Knights are confirmed for Rock & Metal Circus Festival, with more shows to follow.

IRON KNIGHTS is a British Heavy Metal outfit, with the roots of the band going back to 2008. It’s a group of metallers who saw good days, bad days, hard days and heavy ones, so they are a band of well experienced and professional heavy metal musicians. IRON KNIGHTS have been seen many changes in line-up but they survive to rock hard and metal heavily!

The album has a brutal ‘Transparent’ as the intro, a dark riff by the bass starts an epic sentence and when the guitar joins, it sounds brutal and tough. This kind of intro reminds me of the legendary band DEATH but after one and a half minutes you will find the music more in the style of NWOBHM. IRON KNIGHTS’s new vocalist Jamie tried to create a balance between thrash and NWOBHM with his style of singing, which is more in growling mode than clean. However it’s not the only thrash element in this album, on tracks such ‘Vicious Circle’ and ‘Blind‘, fast and thrashy guitar riffs will give you the joy of metal madness.

The weak point of the “Iron Knights” album is the sound production in my opinion. The guitar solos could become louder and the guitar riffs and drums could be more in the background, but this won’t bother you really if you are a fan of their music. It’s hard, thrashy and heavy metal, throughout the whole of the album. The track ‘The Messenger’ is a fast and epic song, including fast galloping guitar riffs, not like ICED EARTH though, as the band have their own style. It could be your favourite track of the album which is followed by another fast old school thrashy track, ‘Jericho.’ However in my opinion, it could sound better if the vocalist changed his style to more clean singing on this particular track. I can imagine how awesome this track could be if Bruce Dickinson sang on it.

You may find it a little hard to listen the first time, but be patient and you will find it a great album. IRON KNIGHTS’s self titled album will give you the joy of an epic journey from a thrash world, to heavy metal and even DEATH, with a few serious and brutal subjects to think about.

IRON KNIGHTS is a British Heavy Metal outfit. Although the roots of the band can be traced back to 2008, the real change that has lifted the band to new heights took place at the end of a European support tour with VICIOUS RUMORS in May/June 2013. From the original IRON KNIGHTS, bassist Paul ‘Beam’ Robbie and drummer Larry Paterson were the sole survivors. Their respective musical journeys have been linked since they formed their first band in New Zealand in 1983: AFTERMATH. Since then they have appeared in numerous bands, both in New Zealand and the UK where they eventually relocated at separate times over the decades that followed. Amongst the various musical adventures that followed, they were both members of UK bands Metalhead and Chokehold, after which Larry spent years with former IRON MAIDEN vocalist Blaze Bayley.

IRON KNIGHTS have gone through various band member changes, but now have an established lined up. They have toured the length and breadth of the UK, as well as accompanying VICIOUS RUMORS on their European Tour. On 14th September 2013, the band played in Andernach, Germany, as part of the Swordbrothers Festival, followed by a support show with ULI JON ROTH and DIAMOND HEAD.

The band played 8 UK shows during February and are scheduled for more shows starting on April 30th in order to promote the forthcoming album. More information can be found at this location.

METAL SHOCK FINLAND is proud to premiere the song ‘Blind‘ by IRON KNIGHTS. It is from the band’s upcoming self-titled album, which is set to be released on May 5th via Metalbox Recordings.

British metal band IRON KNIGHTS return with a brand new album: new line-up, new sound, new direction. The album, also called “Iron Knights” is scheduled for release on May 5th via Metalbox Recordings.

Check out a teaser clip below:

To begin promoting the forthcoming album, IRON KNIGHTS play 8 shows across the UK in February (dates below), with further album tour dates to be announced shortly. The album cover artwork can be seen below: